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The extensive ruins of this 13th-century priory, once a holiday home for monks from Durham, lie on the site of the hermitage of retired merchant and sailor St Godric.
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A history of Audley End, one of the greatest houses of early 17th-century England, transformed by Robert Adam in the 1760s.
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Castle Acre is a rare and complete survival of a Norman planned settlement, including a castle, village, parish church and one of the best preserved monastic sites in England. The priory is a selected site for the AQA GCSE History exam in 2022, for students studying 'The historic environment of Norman England (c.1066-c.1100)'. Use our suggested activities, reading and video resources to explore this unique area, developed by the Warenne family in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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For more than a century after the Battle of Hastings, all substantial stone buildings in England were built in the Norman style, which was superseded from the later 12th century by a new style – the Gothic.
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The Norman Conquest was achieved largely thanks to two instruments of war previously unknown in England: the mounted, armoured knight, and the castle. The former was a key factor in William the Conqueror’s triumph at Hastings, while the latter dramatically militarised the English landscape.
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Discover the history of this English Palladian villa and its gardens beside the Thames, from its origins in the 1720s as a retreat from court life for Henrietta Howard to the present day.
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Edith Cavell was a British nurse who, as matron of a hospital in Brussels, enabled hundreds of Allied soldiers to escape the German occupation during the First World War. She was caught, put on trial and shot executed in October 1915. Her death sparked international outrage and she became an important symbol – not only wartime sacrifice, but of forgiveness, too.